> We long for the simpler, morally un-bankrupt times when people were flashing their bolt-ons on the White House lawn:

Perhaps one day you'll grow to understand that complaints about "flashing their bolt-ons" is dog whistle for moralist hypocrisy, whereas openly taking bribes, threatening close allies with invasion while launching economic war in the form of tarifs, and eliminating foreign aid programs causing hundreds of thousands of deaths digs a far deeper moral, ethical, and geopolitical hole to claw from.